Junior Kirstie St. Martin netted her team-leading 14th goal of the season to give Stonehill a draw in its regular season finale. |
Stonehill Earns Draw at Saint Michael's, 1-1 (2OT)
St. Martin's 14th goal of the season equalizes early in the second half
COLCHESTER, Vt. (October 28, 2009) - Stonehill College, ranked ninth in this week's National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas Division II poll, closed out the regular season with a 1-1 double-overtime draw at Saint Michael's College in Northeast-10 Conference women's soccer action at Duffy Field this afternoon.
Stonehill (10-7-1, 8-6-1 NE-10) will be the sixth seed in next week's Northeast-10 Tournament and will open with a quarterfinal matchup at third-seeded and No. 23-ranked University of Massachusetts Lowell (11-4-3, 10-3-2 NE-10) on Sunday. Match times will be announced on Thursday. Saint Michael's closes out its season with a 4-11-3 record overall, 3-9-3 in the Northeast-10.
Sophomore Kelsey Mahoney dished her Conference-leading tenth assist of the season - just one shy of the program record. |
Junior Kirstie St. Martin (Providence, R.I./Mount Saint Charles Academy) netted the equalizer on sophomore Kelsey Mahoney's (Rehoboth, Mass./Dighton-Rehoboth) Conference-leading tenth assist of the season just 1:13 into the second half. It marks the seventh match over the Skyhawks last eight that Mahoney has notched at least a point and her ten assists are just one shy of the single-season program mark of 11 set by Becky Bartlett in 1995. St. Martin's 14 goals so far have matched the third-highest single-season total in program history.
Junior Jenn Senecal (Yarmouth, Maine/Yarmouth) scored for Saint Michael's when she took a pass from freshman Cassie Crockett (Gilmanton, N.H./Gilford) and netted her fourth of the season at 31:38.
Sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Hickey (Lee, Mass./Lee) made six saves (four in the first half) to preserve the draw for Stonehill. Sophomore Brittany Cocozza (Cranston, R.I./East Greenwich) made two saves in a scoreless first half of play before giving way to classmate Ashleigh Adams (Milton, Vt./Milton) who stopped six shots over the final 65-minutes.
Stonehill finished with a 16-12 advantage in shots for the match, including an 11-6 margin after halftime.
